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With a codebase of any significant size the priority is always to maintain compatibility while improving performance. If you start with an incompatible, highly
by lozenge 4y ago
With a codebase of any significant size the priority is always to maintain compatibility while improving performance.
If you start with an incompatible, highly performant interpreter, the compatibility "distance" is difficult to measure and could create unknown performance cost. For example, PyPy doesn't support C modules due to the differing memory layout.